Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is widely misunderstood, so how does BDD work, what is BDD and why is it a useful technique?

BDD is more than just testing, it is a way to organise software development to better communicate what it is that we are all doing. BDD is more than just the use of tools like Cucumber and SpecFlow, though these tools are fine. It is about creating meaningful executable specifications of what our system should do. If you are asking for TDD vs BDD that are both complimentary, and sort of the same thing. BDD began as a way of explaining TDD so that people could get to the good stuff faster. In reality the behavioural focus at the heart of BDD is applicable at all resolutions of detail when it comes to creating effective tests that are not tightlycoupled to implementation detail.

In this episode Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” explores the how what and why of BDD.



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